Composite roller.



CHABLES F. HARGBAVE, OF iNINTI-IROP, MASSACHUSETTS.

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%mases Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 27, 1.910.

Application filed April 13, 1910. Serial No. 555,178.

To all whom 'Lt may conccrn:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. HARGRAVE, a citizen of the United States, residing in VVinthrop, county of Suiiolk, and State of lvlassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Composite Rollers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specificaton, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a composite roller especially designed and adapted among other uses to be employed as a lawn roller.

The invention has for its object to provide a simple, strong and eflicient roller, which is provided with a handle of novel construction as Will be described, and in which provision is made for enabling the side arms of the handle to be brought in close proXimity to the ends of the roller, so as to enable the roller to be worked close up to walls, fences, steps and like objects, and which also provides for shedding water or moisture which may run down on the handle and preventing the sane from entering the roller, as will be described.

These and other features of this invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a roller enbodying this invention. Fig. 2, a longitudinal section on the line 2-2, Fig. 1, and Fig. 3, a. detail in end elevation to be referred to.

Referring to the drawing, a represents the cylindrical body of the roller, which is made of concrete or like non-metallic material to obtain lightness, and b are metal end disks, which are provided with circumferential fianges c, within which the concrete body a is molded, so that the exterior sui-face ot' the fianges c are flush or substantially flash with the outer circunference of the concrete body portion a. The metal end disks I) may and preferably will be provided with openings (Z for the reception of the eoncrete, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The metal end disks b are provided with inwardly extended hubs con'prising a conical or frustum-shaped portion 10 and a cylindrical portion 12. The eonical portion 10 imparts a bell-shape to the inner surface of the hubs with the wider portion of the bell at the junction of the outer surfaces of the end disks for a purpose as will be described. The inner ends 12 of the hub have fitted tight within them the ends of metal tubes or sleeves 14, 15, each of a length substantially equal to one half of the length of the roller and each provided with a fiange 16 at its inner end (see Fig. 2).

The metal sleeves 14, 15, have extended through them a tube or rod 17, which is threaded at its opposite ends to engage one end of metal elbows 20, having annular beads 21, preferably enlarged or made of a diameter, which will enable them to contact with or substantially contact with the coni-. oal inner walls 10 of the hubs within the same, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The other ends of the elbows 20 are connected by pipe sections 23 torming side arms with elbows 24, which are joined by pipe sections 25 to a tee coupling 26, which is joined by a pipe section 27 to a tee coupling 28 from which extend pipe sections or rods 29. The metal handle thus formed is strong, light, and easily assembled and taken down, and by reason of the elbows 20 being extended into the conical hubs 10, the side arms of the handle may be brought close to the ends of the roller, which enables the latter to work close up to walls, steps, fences and the like. Furthermore, by the coperation of the beads 21 on the elbows 20 with the conical hubs, any water or moisture, which may run down the side arms of the handle, runs off froni the bead 21. onto the eonical inner surface 10 of the hub, and is deflccted away 'rom the interier of the roller and prevented from entering within the same, thereby avoiding the formation of rust, which would render the roller harder to operate.

The tube or pipe 17 extended through the sleeves 14, 15, is made of substantially the internal diameter of said sleeves, so as to obtain a hearing for the rod substantially the length of the roller and thereby facilitate the operation of the same. The fianges c on the end disks may if desired be provided with inwardly extended lugs 30, which assist in looking the end disks to the concrete body a.

From the. above description, it will be seen that the roller is strong, light, easily assemhled and can be worked close up to the walls of buildings, fences, etc., and further is not liable to become hard to operate by rust within the body portion, as the liability of rust forming is reduced to a minimum, which enables the roller to be operated to advantage in moist weather.

surfaces, and a handle provided With elboWs extended into said hubs and having beads coperating With said conical surfaces,

and a rod extended through said roller and connecting said elbows, substntialiy as desc'ribed.

2. In a roller of the character described, in combination, a conorete body portion provided With metal end disks having inwardly eXtended hubs provided With 'conieal inner surfa'ces, and a handle having side arms extended into said hubs and eoperating With said conical surfac'es to cause moisture to be defieeted by said co'nioal surfaees to the outside of 'the said 'body portion, substantially as described.

3. In roller of the character described in conbination, a oonorete body portion provided With end dsks having inwardly extended hubs provided With oonieal portions eXtended from the outer sui-faces of the disks toward the center of the roller With the narrower end of said conical portions within the eonorete body portion, a handle provided With side arms extended into said conical portions and provided With means eoperating therewth to 'cause moistnre to be defiected outward to the en'ds of the roller substantially as described.

In testinony Whereof, I have signed 'ny name to this speeification in the presence of two subsoribing witnesses.

CHARLES F. HARGBAVE.

XVitnesses JAS. H. CI IURCHILL, J. MURPHY. 

